COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders in gold futures: GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Gold futures COT reports (CFTC)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. According to the Commitments of Traders (COT) reports published by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 9,177 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 12,969 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. There are 1,034 records overall in the weekly series shown in the graph above. The series covers the time range going from June 2006 to March 2026.
History. Here are some simple statistics computed on the entire sample: positions had a mean of 20,213 contracts; they hit a peak of 50,291 on 31 December 2019; they registered a minimum of 8,381 on 6 June 2023.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 14192.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 12969.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 9177.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders in gold futures |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Stock |
| Data type | Quantity |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Unit | Number of contracts |
| Source | Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) |
| Source type | Government agency |
| Data licence | Public domain information |
| Other information | Specific future: GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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